Forming IDs
The ability to connect personal experiences with larger social structures -- the particular thinking cap we put on in this field =)
The Sociological Imagination
Theorists of this tradition emphasize social inequality, and suggest that far-reaching social change is needed to achieve a just society.
A social group's prohibition or avoidance of an action or behavior that is considered offensive, sacred, or repulsive.
Taboo
What animal was used in the 1970s experiment that changed how we view addiction?
Rats <3
Widely disseminated forms of communication that transmit information.
Mass Media
A sociological framework that examines how people’s multiple social and political identities (like race, class, and gender) lead to unique experiences of discrimination and privilege.
Intersectionality
A person’s social assets that help them ‘climb the ladder’ in society; a combination of knowledge, skills, and behaviors that demonstrate status.
Cultural Capital
What doll forms the basis of the short piece we read about heteronormativity?
Barbie
What's the name of the non-profit that trained us on reversing opioid overdoses?
Be the Place
A user-generated term for the Facebook-owned photo streaming app's "vaguely inappropriate content" policy, which dramatically reduces posts' visibility by hiding them from the Explore page without warning.
Shadow Ban
The hierarchical arrangement of individuals and groups within a society based on factors like wealth, income, education, race, and power.
Social Stratification
The symbols, norms, language, rituals, values, and artifacts that make up a society.
Culture
Actions and/or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (IE crimes) as well as informal violations (IE rejecting folkways and mores).
Deviance
What medication's sole purpose is to block the opioid receptors in the brain?
Naloxone (Narcan, Kloxxodo)
Individuals who act as both producers AND consumers of information, ideology, and even material culture.
Prosumers
The family, peer groups, schools, the mass media, and religion are all institutions through which individuals learn the culture of their society. What are they referred to as?
Agents of Socialization
The process of transforming cultural elements, social relationships, and even human beings themselves into "things" that can be bought ad sold in the market.
(This is a key marker of capitalism, where non-economic aspects of life are reduced to their monetize-ability)
This group accounts for half of all unplanned pregnancies in the US.
Teenagers
This approach to social problems/deviance holds that, rather than punishing people for deviance, we should do our best to minimize the harms of their behaviors.
Harm Reduction
The online identity and presence an individual develops and presents through digital interactions--formed without the influence of non-verbal feedback or traditional face-to-face social cues.
The Digital Self
What are the three main, socially constructed aspects of our identities that form the bases of inequality?
Race(/Ethnicity), Gender, Sexual Orientation
The phenomenon where the material or technological aspects of culture change faster than non-material aspects (like beliefs, values, and norms) -- leading to social disruption and ethical dilemmas.
Cultural Lag
A hyper-fixation on a non-living object, or on a body part not normatively viewed as sexual -- often results from commodification.
Fetish
The control and regulation of access to resources, opportunities, or information within a social system.
Gatekeeping
Undesired, threatening events that become apparent through "techniques of visualization" like the mass media.
Risk(s)